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Jim Bunning: “I doubt we can create a regulator that will be able to see and stop systemic risk.”

On the recordJuly 22, 2009
I doubt we can create a regulator that will be able to see and stop systemic risk.
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Jim Bunning

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Senator Bunning expresses skepticism about the government's ability to regulate systemic risk.

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